Help me kill my pc

[ComputerPsych]

Hey so my old pc that is 15 years old Is almost dead and i need it to die faster so i can get a new one. What are your suggestions to do it without traces and without buying any equipment like usb killers and such. My dad wants it to die also because my mom said she is only buying a new one when this one is unfixable

[TrainFan475]

I don't exactly know how to feel about this...

[ComputerPsych]

Just now, TrainFan2020 said:

I don't exactly know how to feel about this...

Please help  Its an old core 2 quad machine i upgraded the drive to ssd so i would like to keep that but it lags and the gpu spits artifacts after 1-3 hours of use

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, ComputerPsych said:

Please help  Its an old core 2 quad machine i upgraded the drive to ssd so i would like to keep that but it lags and the gpu spits artifacts after 1-3 hours of use

turn off the fans and let it cook?

[Statik]

I would recommend being a decent human and not destroying something that you *likely* didn't pay for, so you can get someone else to pay for a new one.

 

What has this world come to.

[ComputerPsych]

Just now, Statik said:

I would recommend being a decent human and not destroying something that you *likely* didn't pay for, so you can get someone else to pay for a new one.

 

What has this world come to.

I actually did pay for it myself but its showing age and is just horrible to work on after you turn it on the only thing that only lags is the dekstop just look at it for 2 hours

[ComputerPsych]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

turn off the fans and let it cook?

Wont it overheat and shut down? I took the cpu heatsink off it just turned of after 2 minutes. Is there a bios setting to prevent it from turning off. Btw i tryed to overclock it to stupid speeds so it would burn but its running at 4.8ghz idk how

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, ComputerPsych said:

Wont it overheat and shut down? I took the cpu heatsink off it just turned of after 2 minutes. Is there a bios setting to prevent it from turning off. Btw i tryed to overclock it to stupid speeds so it would burn but its running at 4.8ghz idk how

 

can you crank the voltage? Send like 1.8v to the cpu, that should make it end pretty quickly.

[Lord Vile]

8 minutes ago, ComputerPsych said:

Hey so my old pc that is 15 years old Is almost dead and i need it to die faster so i can get a new one. What are your suggestions to do it without traces and without buying any equipment like usb killers and such. My dad wants it to die also because my mom said she is only buying a new one when this one is unfixable

What OS is it on? Cos you can just delete system 32 Or run a strong magnet over the drive

[SansVarnic]

42 minutes ago, ComputerPsych said:

Hey so my old pc that is 15 years old Is almost dead and i need it to die faster so i can get a new one. What are your suggestions to do it without traces and without buying any equipment like usb killers and such. My dad wants it to die also because my mom said she is only buying a new one when this one is unfixable

Your obviously bent on doing this ... Easy break off a pin on the cpu.

 

[Statik]

6 minutes ago, ComputerPsych said:

I actually did pay for it myself but its showing age and is just horrible to work on after you turn it on the only thing that only lags is the dekstop just look at it for 2 hours

Then buy another one.

[ComputerPsych]

1 minute ago, Lord Vile said:

What OS is it on? Cos you can just delete system 32 Or run a strong magnet over the drive

Win 10 pro and the magnet trick wont work its a ssd

[ComputerPsych]

1 minute ago, SansVarnic said:

Your obviously bent on doing this ... Easy break off a pin on the cpu.

 

Hmmm Good idea but i should break the one that controls something like the heat or voltage

[ComputerPsych]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

can you crank the voltage? Send like 1.8v to the cpu, that should make it end pretty quickly.

Maximum on this motherboard is 1.7 volts and it doesnt turn on after that but it isnt dead it shows Clear cmos on screen 

[jaslion]

Just unplug a cable? Like you don't have to break it to not make it function anymore.

[Lord Vile]

2 minutes ago, ComputerPsych said:

Win 10 pro and the magnet trick wont work its a ssd

Well I'd want to keep the SSD most likely... ooo remove the CMOS battery

[ComputerPsych]

Just now, jaslion said:

Just unplug a cable? Like you don't have to break it to not make it function anymore.

My mom checks the cables  she knows how they are supposed to be its my fault i teached her that

[PeachGr]

That cutie killed my dish once.

[PeachGr]

You can also upgraded firmware and plug off in the middle of it. There is a chance that not even an expert could bring it back

[Slayer3032]

I have a Q6600 build that boots faster than Haswell and Skylake builds I've used off of a $20 60gb filled with nothing but the lowest quality spare parts like a 430w TR2 psu and a random frameless gpu fan that I screwed to the southbridge to keep it under 80c. It refuses to die and is one of the snappier builds to use that I have kicking around.

 

Don't kill it, get a better C2Q or do a LGA771 Xeon mod on it. Get the cheapest gpu/display adapter you can find, clean it up nice and sell it with an SSD for $100-150. Old gpus are really what hold back performance as far as games and what not, you're not going to do anything crazy with it and I don't think those cpus support SSE for like EAC games but stick a $50-100 GTX 970 or similar performance gpu in it and you'll be really surprised what they can do.

 

As far as destroying it, why bother trying to short it out or brick it or whatever... Unless you make the PSU pop, it's just going to turn off and maybe make a quick spark and a very small puff of smoke. Go get a sledgehammer or something, at least that would be fun. Throw it off a cliff or down a hill, ect.

[Kanna]

What I would do is work for it myself or teach the person who is buying you a new one that it is old and isn't on today's standards. You could always just remove a capacitor that is important or as other people said bend the CPU pins (I have more ways in mind learned them the hard way)

[Kanna]

4 minutes ago, Slayer3032 said:

Throw it off a cliff or down a hill, ect.

I could never

[IkeaGnome]

Instead of bricking a perfectly good piece of hardware, why not just pull the CPU out and put the cooler back on? No permanent damage and it won't turn on.

[SansVarnic]

-= Locked =-

 

Ok I think this has run its course.

I personally would not destroy a good piece of equipment. (sans the suggestion I included)

You have received several ideas, thus I will lock this now before its starts to dive into less than desirable conversation.

 

I have removed comments dangerous in nature.